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Rome "is in meltdown," according to Moore & Politi of the FINANCIAL TIMES. Yet 67-year-old former Fiat and Ferrari Chair Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, who is leading Rome’s bid for the 2024 summer Games, believes that "this is the perfect time for the Eternal City to host the Olympics." He...

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In a development of far reaching consequences, "corruption-tainted persons will no longer be eligible to contest" in the Indian Olympic Association elections under the revised draft constitution of the IOA sent by its parent body, the IOC, according to the PTI. The world body laid down the provision ...

Olympic Public Authority President (APO) Marcio Fortes, one of "the most senior figures involved" in planning the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics, resigned, "adding to uncertainty over the city's ability to deliver on promises made during its bid," according to Tariq Panja of BLOOMBERG. Fortes, ...

Amateur boxing World President Ching-Kuo Wu, who is standing as a candidate for IOC presidency, revealed that he "has received death threats in the last five years," according to Gareth A. Davies of the London TELEGRAPH. However, Wu insists leading world sport must be done with "no fear." Wu, in Lon ...

Russia's Interior Ministry, "which controls the police force," confirmed Monday that "the country's controversial anti-gay law will be enforced" during the 2014 Sochi Olympics, according to R-SPORT. Confusion "has reigned over how the country intends to act" during the Winter Games after President V ...

In recent months, blows have "rained down" on Istanbul's 2020 Olympic bid with anti-government protests "rocking the country, and dozens of Turkish athletes banned for doping," according to Karolos Grohmann of REUTERS. But Istanbul 2020 CEO Hasan Arat said that "to suffer those ups and downs ov ...

Tokyo 2020 announced Monday that e-commerce company Rakuten, Inc. has become Tokyo's latest official bid partner, bringing the list of corporate partners to 21 ( Tokyo 2020 ). ... Tynemouth sailing club is one of 1,300 sports projects in England "that have been given money to improve facil ...

British Olympic Association Chair Sebastian Coe "has rejected calls" for a boycott of the 2014 Sochi Olympics in the wake of Russia's new anti-gay propaganda laws -- calling it a "ludicrous proposition" and insisting that boycotts do not work, according to Sean Ingle of the London GUARDIAN. Coe said ...

In preparation for the 2014 Winter Games, "Sochi resembles a construction site," according to Charles Clover of the FINANCIAL TIMES. The government has poured $51B into transforming the Soviet-era beach town into a resort city of the 21st century "with five-star hotels, new roads and ...

Madrid, which is one of three cities competing to host the 2020 Olympic Games, "believes the Games will return to the U.S. in 2024," according to Matilla & Jiménez of AS. A U.S. host for the Olympics "is being demanded by NBC, which owns exclusive broadcast rights to the Olympics." NBC's ...

Despite already being one of the world's "most successful athletes" and having broken world records in pole vaulting, SERGEI BUBKA "is ready to face new challenges," according to Ivan Nechepurenko of the MOSCOW TIMES. In September, Bubka, 49, hopes to become "the youngest candidate to succeed Jacq ...